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* [[The Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|Subverted that, in the end, the real conspiracy is Zoil is actually trying to ''help'' Paul escape from the Big Guy all along.}}
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: {{spoiler|"Ain't this a b- *gets crushed by landing alien ship*}}
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]:
** An otherwise throwaway line from Jane Lynch:
{{quote| '''Clive''': The Robot's Mistress?<br />
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* [[Dreamworks Face]]: [http://www.impawards.com/2011/paul_ver2.html One of the posters]. Sure, Paul is supposed to be a smart [[Amusing Alien]], but ''come on''.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: "Small corrections! Small corrections!"
* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: {{spoiler|The Big Guy is killed off rather anti-climatically for comedy}}.
* [[Easy Evangelism]]: A few minutes with Graeme (and a handy mind meld) are enough to break Ruth out of her Bible-thumping fundamentalism.
** Somewhat subverted, as she is clearly shocked and frightened by the sudden collapse of her entire worldview, temporarily BSODing.
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* [[Exotic Equipment]]: "Hey, on my planet, this is [[Gag Penis|small!]]"
* [[Exposition Beam]]: Paul can zap people with knowledge of the universe.
* [[Fiction Asas Cover Up]]: Inverted. According to Paul, the government commissioned movies about aliens in order to prepare society for [[First Contact]], not to make them skeptical. He was responsible for, among others, ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', ''[[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', and ''[[The X -Files]]''.
* [[The Foreign Subtitle]]: The Chinese title of the film translates to "We Hit an Alien!"
* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Ruth, [[Character Development|initially]]. She freaks out at Paul even ''after'' he explains that his existence "only disproves... one world theologies". Her dad is even worse.
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* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: {{spoiler|Clive and Graeme eventually write about their experience with Paul. On a lesser note, Graeme constantly sketches Paul throughout their trip.}}
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: While being chased by {{spoiler|what they believe are the hicks, Gus and Jake}} Clive worries that their assailants will "...rape us and break our arms!" Graeme whimpers that he doesn't "want (his) arms broken!"
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]:
** Paul is repeatedly described as being a [[Nice Guy]] but ''"incredibly'' rude."
** So is {{spoiler|Agent Zoil}}.
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{{quote| "I'm on a mission from God!"<br />
"Tell him you failed." }}
* [[Production Posse]]: This is the fourth project Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have starred in together, following the TV show ''[[Spaced (TV)|Spaced]]'' and the films ''[[Shaun of the Dead (Film)|Shaun of the Dead]]'' and ''[[Film/Hot Fuzz|Hot Fuzz]]''.
* [[Punny Name]]: {{spoiler|[[wikipedia:Lorenzos oil|Lorenzo Zoil]].}}
* [[Reality Subtext]]: At the end, Pat tells Ruth that she would look even better with her clothes off. The actress who plays her, [[Glee|Jane Lynch]], is a lesbian.
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** People fainting when they meet Paul for the first time.
** "You can't WIN with these people."
* [[Separated Byby a Common Language]]
{{quote| '''Graeme''': It's in the car park.<br />
'''Clive''': I think you mean the parking lot.<br />
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** For starters: Clive is implied to have a dog called [[Independence Day|Boomer]]. Interestingly, while in ''[[Independence Day]]'' Boomer survives everything, the first scenes of ''Paul'' shows more cruelty towards pets.
** Who has guns in England? "[[Hot Fuzz|...farmers.]]"
** Zoil calls Paul "[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Temple of Doom (Film)|Short Round]]". The warehouse Paul spends much of his time in looks suspiciously where the Ark of the Covenant was stored in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' and the site of the beginning of ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]''.
** The finale contains many references to ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', including Devil's Tower, shots of people standing around and going into the spaceship, and the "Five Tones" summoning the ship. Earlier, the Five Tones play at the fireworks store.
** [[Star Wars|"Boring conversation anyway."]]
** The scene in the redneck bar has a live band performing the Cantina theme from Episode IV.
** Grahm and Clive visit [[Kirk's Rock]] and reenact the scene.
** They also play virtual reality [[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]] at San Diego ComicCon.
** [[Aliens|"Get away from her, you BITCH!"]], {{spoiler|said ''to'' [[Sigourney Weaver]]}}.
** [[Jaws (Filmfilm)|"Smile, you son of a bitch!"]]
** [[The Blues Brothers|"I'm on a mission from God!"]]
** [[Doctor Who|"No spoilers!"]]
** Paul [[The Karate Kid|puts his palms together and rubs]] before healing a bird.
** [[Back to The Future|"Where we're going, you won't need teeth."]]
** Paul also wanted some [[E.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)Extra-Terrestrial|Reese's Pieces]]. Hell, ''Paul himself'' came up with the idea for ''ET''.
** Three-breasted space babe, [[Total Recall|you say]]? Also could be a shoutout to [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon VI]]
** The Big Guy refers to Paul as "[[Mork and Mindy|Mork]]'' at one point. He doesn't like it.
** Paul jokingly addresses Clive and Graeme as "[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]" after the [[Bar Brawl]].
** "I've dreamed of this since I was twelve, when I first saw ''[[Mac and Me]]''."
** Graeme at one point is wearing an ''[[Invincible (Comic Book)|Invincible]]'' t-shirt, and later in the comic shop you can clearly see an Invincible comic behind the boy.
*** Especially funny because not only is Invincible more geeky and non-mainstream comic than many with wider recognition, but he is also a [[Human Alien]].
** Graeme wears a [[The Flash|Flash]] t-shirt at the beginning of the movie and much of the rest an [[Empire Strikes Back]] t-shirt.
** At one point in the comic shop you can see a rack full of [[Scott Pilgrim]] books. Had Edgar Wright not directed ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', he would have directed ''Paul''. In addition, [[Simon Pegg]] is said to be a fan of Brian Lee O'Malley.
** {{spoiler|When Paul "dies", he looks just like the alien in the infamous "alien autopsy" video.}}
** [[Flight of the Navigator|Using fireworks to signal]] [[Galaxy Quest (Film)|to an alien space ship]]
** [[Titanic|Are you going to draw me like one of your French girls, Jack?]]
** Graeme says, "Oh my..." when {{spoiler|he's shot.}} These were Captain Kirk's final words.
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